34 people were hanged in public in Iran in 2016; and an audience of hundreds of people, including children, were present for most of these ...
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Picture Of The Day
Aiming Techniques A soldier demonstrates proper aiming techniques using a AT-4 rocket launcher during weapons familiarization at the 7th A...
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Thousands Flee Myanmar As A New Rohingya Muslim Insurgence Emerges And The Military Cracks Down
Time: ‘The Villages are Burning Down.’ Fear and Fire Send Rohingya Fleeing to Bangladesh Attacks by insurgents. A brutal military crack...
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Australia Offers Military Assistance To Philippines In Their Battle Against The Islamic State
Australian troops would be advising in Marawi City, where Islamic State terrorists have been most active. (Reuters: Romeo Ranoco) ABC New...
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U.S. And South Korean Defense Chiefs Talk Of Redeploying U.S. Nuclear Weapons To South Korea
Korea Times : Allies discuss redeployment of nuclear weapons Defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States discussed the possible ...
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Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Believes Private Contractors Will Save Afghanistan
Erik Prince testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on security contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan on Capitol...
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Top U.S. Commander Believes Islamic State Leader Al-Baghdadi Is Alive
US News and World Report: U.S. General Thinks Baghdadi Is Alive The elusive leader should probably be killed rather than captured, the ...
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 31, 2017
The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer! — Donald J. Trump (@re...
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World News Briefs -- August 31, 2017
Reuters: Mattis signs orders to send additional troops to Afghanistan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on ...
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 31, 2017
PHOTO: South Korea and Japan join US strategic bombers as they conduct a show of force in response to North Korea. (Twitter: US Pacific Com...
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Man tries to kill girlfriend by pouring bottle of hair remover down her throat
A man who became upset with his girlfriend tried to kill her by forcing hair remover down her throat, according to police in Louisiana. T...
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Duterte: Prisoners are "monsters that can't be rehabilitated"
In a speech yesterday, President Rodrigo Duterte compared prisoners to “monsters,” in an effort to reiterate his position against restorati...
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The Unlikely Exoneration of Henry McCollum
Of all the men and women on death row in North Carolina, Henry McCollum’s guilty verdict looked airtight . He had signed a confession full ...
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Editor's Note
Running behind. Blogging will return in the next hour or two.
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U.S. Deployment Of Additional Soldiers To Afghanistan Has Begun
New York Times: Mattis Orders First Group of Reinforcements to Afghanistan WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday t...
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U.S. Orders The Closure Of The Russian Consulate In San Francisco And Two Other Diplomatic Offices
Politico : U.S. retaliates against Russia by forcing diplomatic closures State Dept. calls the Kremlin's prior ouster of diplomatic ...
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This is Why You Serve When The President Asks You To
BREAKING: Why doesn't Mattis quit? Why did he serve? I just asked him. Here's what he said to us minutes ago, on record at the Pent...
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Cathay Pacific announces 3 new European routes
Cathay Pacific has officially announced that it will be embarking on a major European expansion from Summer 2018 onwards as the carrier l...
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Qantas to suspend Dubai flights
Qantas has officially announced that it will be adjusting its long haul route network from the on set of the IATA S18 season as the carri...
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The U.N.'s Nuclear Watchdog Will Not inspect Iran's Military Sites
Reuters: U.S. pressure or not, U.N. nuclear watchdog sees no need to check Iran military sites VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States is ...
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Florida Supreme Court Rules Against State Attorney Aramis Ayala on Death Penalty Cases
Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced she has organized a death penalty review panel to look at first-degree murder cases af...
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Pentagon Acknowledges That There Are More Soldiers In Afghanistan Than Previously Reported
Reuters : U.S. acknowledges more troops in Afghanistan than previously stated WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 11,000 U.S. troops are servin...
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 30, 2017
North Korea's official news agency distributed this photo, purportedly of the rocket launch. KCNA Justin Bronk, BBC: North Korea: Wh...
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World News Briefs -- August 30, 2017 (Evening Edition)
Reuters: Storm-hit Houston strains from influx of evacuees, crime outbreak HOUSTON (Reuters) - Houston strained under the arrival of te...
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U.S. -Led Coalition Now Battling Syrian Rebels Once Supported By The CIA
Newsweek: US Military Battles Syrian Rebels Once Supported by CIA, Now Backed by Turkey Soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition tasked wit...
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Renesas is Back in Image Sensor Business!
Renesas has been formed from combined semiconductor businesses of Mitsubishi, Hitachi and NEC, all of them used to be image sensor manufactu...
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Corephotonics on Smartphone Zoom Evolution
EETimes publishes Corephotonics article "Evolution of Zoom Camera in Smartphones." Few quotes: " The future of mobile dual...
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